SPORTS PEOPLE: BASEBALL

SPORTS PEOPLE: BASEBALL; Boggs Speaks Out

Published: March 25, 1989

In an interview with Barbara Walters that was broadcast last night on the ABC program ''20-20,'' Wade Boggs, the Boston Red Sox third baseman, said Margo Adams threatened to make his life difficult if he broke off their four-year affair. Boggs said he worried Adams would blackmail him with pictures she had taken of them.

''I was between a rock and a hard place,'' Boogs said in the interview, which was taped last Tuesday. ''She had so many pictures of me that I felt that if I make her mad, she's going to do something.''

Boggs, a five-time American League batting champion, broke off his affair with Adams last year. She is now suing him for wages she says she lost during their time together.

Red Sox officials were said to have been angered that Boggs, whom they are attempting to trade, gave the interview.(AP)